[crtxcr]

I was one of the relatively early adopters in 2015 when the BQ Aquaris E4.5 came out.

I gave Ubuntu Touch a chance, particularly as I was longing for something comparable to Maemo on the Nokia N900. At first it was great. OpenSSH, bash, etc. I had some fun hacking on it. However, I quickly realized they threw a beta product at the people.

I missed phone calls because of race conditions. I couldn't connect to my wifi because my password was too long.... It overall really seemed the team at Canonical didn't have enough man power.

Eventually, these things got fixed, but too late for me. In some ways it's cool that the community hasn't given up on Ubuntu touch, unlike Canonical. I don't know how much has changed under the hood, but one can only hope the software stack is more reliable now.

[tmtvl]

I also was an early adopter of the BQ Aquaris (I even meant to get a tablet, but got too busy), and it was great, Ubuntu Touch felt so much nicer for me to use than Android... and then I stupidly dropped it, and with the bottom left of the screen unresponsive I had to toss it.

Most painful loss of a device I've suffered.